About the book: 2018 / FSB Lieutenant Spartak Gladkov and oligarch Mark Krassovsky are the worst enemies. The lieutenant has been trying for several years to convict the oligarch of selling military technologies on the black market. And finally, Gladkov takes Krassovsky red-handed when handing over the latest electronic warfare installation to the terrorists. During the ensuing shootout, a bullet hits the device and... Spartak finds himself in the distant past, 70 years BC. The last year of the gladiator uprising is underway. It has failed - hunger, cold and schism threaten complete defeat, the slaves are locked up on the Rhegian Peninsula. Will the young lieutenant be able to raise the morale of the rebels? Will the updated Spartak, using the combat experience of special forces of the 21st century, be able to turn the tide of the war? And what will happen when Gladkov finds out that behind the mask of the victorious Roman commander Marcus Crassus is hiding his old enemy?